Women and Politics in Sri Lanka
Title | Women and Politics in Sri Lanka PDF eBook |
Author | Sirima Kiribamune |
Publisher | |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Sri Lanka |
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Contributed articles.
Women in Sri Lanka
Title | Women in Sri Lanka PDF eBook |
Author | Swarna Jayaweera |
Publisher | |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Economic assistance |
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Women in Post-Independence Sri Lanka
Title | Women in Post-Independence Sri Lanka PDF eBook |
Author | Swarna Jayaweera |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2002-03-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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During the fifty years since independence, Sri Lanka has made considerable strides in various spheres. Adopting a gender perspective, this volume discusses the impact on women of the social, political and economic developments which have occurred during these eventful decades. Bringing together activists and scholars, this important book thoughtfully reviews the different paths Sri Lankan women have taken to achieve greater political and economic empowerment and control over their lives.
Tea and Solidarity
Title | Tea and Solidarity PDF eBook |
Author | Mythri Jegathesan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | SOCIAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | 9780295745657 |
Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their families and lives in line houses on tea plantations since the nineteenth century. The tea industry's economic crisis and Sri Lanka's twenty-six year long civil war have ushered in changes to life and work on the plantations, where family members now migrate from plucking tea to performing domestic work in the capital city of Colombo or farther afield in the Middle East. Using feminist ethnographic methods in research that spans the transitional time between 2008 and 2017, Mythri Jegathesan presents the lived experience of these women and men working in agricultural, migrant, and intimate labor sectors. In Tea and Solidarity, Jegathesan seeks to expand anthropological understandings of dispossession, drawing attention to the political significance of gender as a key feature in investment and place making in Sri Lanka specifically, and South Asia more broadly. This vivid and engaging ethnography sheds light on an otherwise marginalized and often invisible minority whose labor and collective heritage of dispossession as ?coolies? in colonial Ceylon are central to Sri Lanka's global recognition, economic growth, and history as a postcolonial nation.
Women & the Nation's Narrative
Title | Women & the Nation's Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | Neloufer De Mel |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780742518070 |
This book explores the development of nationalism in Sri Lanka during the past century, particularly within the dominant Sinhala Buddhist and militant Tamil movements. Tracing the ways women from diverse backgrounds have engaged with nationalism, Neloufer de Mel argues that gender is crucial to an understanding of nationalism and vice versa. Traversing both the colonial and postcolonial periods in Sri Lanka's history, the author assesses a range of writers, activists, political figures, and movements almost completely unknown in the West. With her rigorous, historically located analyses, de Mel makes a persuasive case for the connections between figures like actress Annie Boteju and art historian and journalist Anil de Silva; poetry whether written by Jean Arasanayagam or Tamil revolutionary women; and political movements like the LTTE, the JVP, the Mother's Front, and contemporary feminist organizations. Evaluating the colonial period in light of the violence that animates Sri Lanka today, de Mel proposes what Bruce Robbins has termed a 'lateral cosmopolitanism' that will allow coalitions to form and to practice an oppositional politics of peace. In the process, she examines the gendered forms through which the nation and the state both come together and pull apart. The breadth of topics examined here will make this work a valuable resource for South Asianists as well as for scholars in a wide range of fields who choose to consider the ways in which gender inflects their areas of research and teaching.
Sri Lankan Woman in Antiquity
Title | Sri Lankan Woman in Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Indrāṇī Muṇasiṃha |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Sri Lanka |
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History of Sri Lankan women from 6th B.C.-15th century A.C; a study.
Women in Sri Lanka
Title | Women in Sri Lanka PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Provides a brief description of the country setting and an overview of the socio-demographic situation of women. Examines women's roles and responsibilities in economic, public, and family life vis-à-vis those of men.